Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in surveying the South Devon Railway, opted to push a line along a coastal strip between the Exe and Teign valleys, and then to climb the southern outliers of Dartmoor making for the head of the Plym estuary.
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In broad gauge times trains changed engines at Newton Abbot with 4-4-0 saddle tanks of the South Devon Railway and later 2-4-0 saddle tanks of the GWR hauling trains over the steep gradients to Plymouth.
The South Devon Railway Company built and operated the railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Torquay in Devon, England.
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It then climbs steeply up to Rattery and then skirts the southern edge of Dartmoor before dropping down a steep gradient at Hemerdon to terminate nearly back at sea level in Plymouth.
He published his research in 1856 and was congratulated for the clarity and practicality of his work by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was building the South Devon Railway at the time.
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The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway was a broad gauge railway linking the South Devon Railway branch at Torquay with Kingswear in Devon, England.